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The Switch is honestly a great concept of hardware, but tbh Nintendo sacrificed a lot of their handheld success to make it. The OS is essentially just a glorified game launcher, even the DSi had more builtin software features. The joycons are somehow cheaper than the DS line of control inputs, and the added sensors like motion and depth from the Wii have gone unused for the game lineup. Lots of handheld clones proved that it is being used primarily for gaming at anytime convenience and not a multiplayer experience like the DS. Even Steam Deck, which is almost a PC, is a popular platform to emulate Switch games. On top of all that, the change to Tegra means that the Switch is incapable of emulating even Wii games (and GC games efficiently) due to its underpowered chip and different architectural design. Lots of Wii and Wii U games have been locked to their original console. DS and 3DS games are also essentially lost to themselves because the Switch lacks the necessary peripherals to make backwards compatibility possible. And as usualy Nintendo makes ports at a snails pace and also loves to sell them at full AAA price. I would kill for a 4DS, but as you said Nintendo combined all their dev teams and are going to be set on the hybrid model for a while, especially now with the Switch 2 around the corner. I think they'd find success with the right marketing campaign. Mobile gaming had its bubble pop and is now essentially no longer a competitor if treated correctly. All they'd have to do is make a DS equivalent in specs to a phone like ROG, and make the dev kit cheap & easy to get which would allow mobile devs to make a plethora of games again to something similar to the original DS library which was huge. Even for Nintendo though that seems unlikely because they don't always reducing console exclusives.

seeing an actual version of the stick switch leak stunlocked me irl

this is so julia

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We Need a new DS System

INDY and Iris, sitting in a.. cabinet somewhere in Nintendo's archives.

Inlike how the oic with the question mark is a ds lite

I love when the algorithm recommends me a small channel that clearly researches their topics. I loved seeing all the internal Nintendo documents. You did a good job relating the important points without being too wordy. This is great work.

I’m telling you the more time passes that nintendo “XDS” trailer turns out to have more and more development truth behind it

Wait, so that freaking oval thing was actually real? Who’s awful idea was that?!

OMG FRENCH SUBTITLES !!

So close

somewhere should be Unity 3.6 version for wii - does have it some one? it's possible to porting games from Unity to wii today? porting online co-op game can really be fun - for example: bring ghost mansion + smartphone as wiiU gamePad

I'm happy the Wii u didn't look like that😭

It really pisses me off that people think the 2d single screen switch is a replacement for the 3ds. it has its own merits but its an entirely different device. It really upsets me that i can't get this old device and updated versions of it. Finally, what i hate the most is that it's the same company that has created so many cultural and technological treasures which is so fascistic and obsessed with drm and copyright control.

The 4ds grabs and chokes you when it senses pirated content.

Man, the Indy sounds like a recipe for disaster. Feature overbloating (wich didn't sell more consoles neither on the handheld nor home console side) with the Wii U architecture (wich was famourly hard to work with due to being overcomplicated and outdated) and a 3D screen (wich hurts performance). Add in an extra chipset for 3DS BC wich woul've ramped up the price and the worst video stream technology of the moment, and you have a company destroyer right there. Thank Iwata they slowly transitioned to the Switch and did a clean cut from the WiiDS era.

for the longest time i thought the wii u could play 3ds games, this is probably why.

so thats why the switch has so many wii u/gamecube/wii ports. this is also probably why the 3ds got a couple of wii/GameCube ports

You forgot the biggest reason why the 3DS had such a poor launch. It was initially priced at $250. Wasn’t until they cut the price all the way down to $170 that momentum began picking back up again.

I just want Streetpass back 😢

Would be cool if someone build the INDY!

Hearing a nintendo song from my childhood makes me want to instantly click off a video. Why would anyone who also grew up with these songs want all of that fondness and nostalgia intertwined with some random video they clicked on? Theres plenty of good musical alternatives for a video game centric channel. Not at all trying to hate, many people do this.

Honestly, DS was the best anti-emulation move Nintendo could do, it makes it inconvenient to play on other devices. So if they want to kill off that software it might be a good move to bring this concept back

i feel like so many questions i had as a teen about how the transition from the wii u and 3ds to the switch have finally been answered. something deep in my brain was finally put to rest with this video

I really wish the WiiU succeeded, I thought that was a perfect TV-Console counterpart of the 3DS, and I thought it was a phenomenal move for Nintendo's early-to-mid 2010s' generation to be an evolved or enhanced version of their predecessors (DS & Wii), and had the WiiU co-succeeded alongside the 3DS, we'd probably continue to see *2 Nintendo Platforms Per Generation* instead of merging together into their Hybrid System nature, with the 3DS successor potentially being Nintendo HDS (featuring two screens that both display 1280×720, and sharing very similar graphics to Mario Kart Tour and PlayStation Vita) released in 2018 and while I have no idea what that WiiU's hypothetical successor could've been, but just for the sake of this comment, i'll call it the WiiV, which would've released in 2019 and being comparably as powerful as the PlayStation4Pro & XboxOneX, still being a generation behind Nintendo's competitors (PS5 & XbSX) for their 3rd consecutive generation in a row due to strategic reasons! Sorry if this comment was too long, just wanted to share my own speculation of what-if the WiiU was a successful console much like the 3DS.

I got confused reading the title

I'm looking to find a video or more info on the white Nintendo development unit. I only can find a photo in console variations. Do you know of any videos or information

The switch being a successor to the Wiiu and 3Ds was not done well to the 3Ds probably because there were no Early 3ds ports I took 7 years before one 3ds port Luigi's Mansion 2 HD.

I remember working on the early version of that TEG board (the green motherboard with one screen attached), on a Majesco launch title for the DS called Moonlight Fables that ended up getting cancelled. We had to give the board back when they sent us proper devkits. I wish I had hung on to it. It's graphics capabilities and everything else were pretty close to the actual DS, and it took minimal porting to get what we had developed on this board working on the final DS dev kit. I vaguely remember a way of doing early dual screen rendering on it too, but you had to choose which screen to display on the single monitor. Long time ago!

Who cares youre from Canada bye

Canada sucks

hello dr. jones

Always my Storm pick

8:34 It's Vincent Vega!

I wish we got the Indy, the Switch basically threw out everything fun about the 3DS, while they planned for the Indy to keep it.

Cool.

To this day people ask “what is that” when I whip out the Wii U tablet

thank god we got the switch instead of whatever this was lol

So a portable Wii U? Well they kinda did that.

It's interesting to see the many cool features that were planned for the Nintendo Switch predecessor, like the streetpass, 3d screen and such, in the end we only got bluetooth headphones (only after a very long time after release), 2 themes and paid online suscription, wow, hopefully the Switch 2 will have all, or at least one of the features that the 3ds had, c'mon Nintendo, give us features other than playing games, please

Wee new 4ds because best handheld for me 3ds

Miracle Mask was not a launch game in America or Europe. I honestly wish I had a Japanese system early back in the days.

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I know that Nintendo made the right choice by unifying their hardware. That much is obvious by the fact that the Switch is the fastest selling game console in history. But I still hate that there is no longer a separate handheld and home console with unique libraries and features for each. I love the 2 screen clamshell design of the DS&3DS. It just makes sense for portability. Having the console serve as its own screen protector (you should still get a real screen protector for them) while also being able to fit more screen in less area is awesome And the 3D was sick. The original model was finnicky, but the N3DS was near flawless. It really did elevate the games that used it well, so much that they (imo) feel worse without it. In fact, 3D not catching on is a real loss for consumers, at least imo. Manufacturers were pushing 3D TVs (or game consoles) that were really close to great, but not quite there. By the time major strides were made across home entertainment products and the tech finally started delivering what people expected, it was too late. Had manufacturers just given it a few more years in the oven before their massive push, 3D might still be relevant today. For example, if the 3D in the original 3DS had worked as well as it did in the N3DS, and that was the baseline experience, many people wouldn't have left that slider permanently in the "off" position. Or if the incredible 4K 3D OLED TVs that ended up bookending the 3D push had been near the start instead, consumers likely wouldn't have written them off. Regardless of how most consumers first encountered it, it was almost always before it got good, and nobody cared anymore when they did. Just a little more time to be perfected beforehand could have radically changed how things went down. Most people never experienced home 3D at its best.

It's the Switch lite, though.

Please let the next console have some of the 3ds successor ideas

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11:00 - That's how close they came to f-king it up!

The Nintendo 4DS is real!!